BT to make porn filters opt-out in UK

[Sushubh]

New customers to BT's internet services will have adult content filtering turned on by default, meaning they won't be able to connect to any site focusing on adult themes unless they purposely decide against implementing Parental Controls when they first set up their internet connection.BT Parental Controls are the company's way of complying with the UK government's wish that all sites featuring adult content, including pornography, be filtered. Customers are offered the option to change them and must confirm that they are fine with the controls being implemented before progressing with set up, but the default setting is that they are active at router level.
The filters are aimed at blocking content deemed potentially unsuitable for children, but have already faced criticism by anti-censorship groups.

http://www.readability.com/articles/gpmhyxpi

 

[whoru007]

Citizens of UK are being slow walked to ubiquitous surveillance. The next thing would be blocking site which doesn't matches UK's policies e.g. extremist sites, lately pirating sites, and at the end banning VPN usage because circumventing the law is illegal in itself.
As long as there are offshore providers for VPN people can use internet.

 

[Sushubh]

Yup. Turns out our former rulers are no different from our current rulers.